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A year

_ this week —

WHEN THE TERRACE:
REVIEW ASKED premier Bill
Vander Zalm what happened to the
money for the last four kilometres
of Shames Mountain road, we
-didn’t get exactly what we
expected. An answer. It was
coming, we were told, but, "I don’t
know where it’s at," said our pre-
mier. "Who knows. I’m not sure. lt
may have been resolved." These
words were uttered on July 28,
1989.

Something tike $1.2 million had
been approved by the Treasury
Board on July 1, 1989, and that,
we thought, was all the Ministry of
Highways required to begin work
on the road. On July 11, however,
Skeena MLA Dave Parker told us
we hadn’t quite cleared all the
hurdles yet: the proposal was
going to be discussed by cabinet
on July 12. So on that date we ran
a story titled "Day of decision for
Shames”... but we lied. Nothing
happened. The "proposal" was sent
back to the Treasury Board "to be
reworked".

We were told Cabinet would
have the "proposal" back by. July
19 but that didn’t happen either.
The “proposal”, we feared, had
disappeared. So we went to the
top. Surely the premier had his
fingers on the pulse of the provinc-
ce... and Shames. Nope. We didn’t
give up, though. We found the
“proposal”. It was in the hands of
ihe Ministry of Regional Develop-
ment in Victoria... and would be
for some time. We should hear
something, we were told a year
ago this week, in about three to
four weeks. Would there ever be
skiing at Shames?

IN FAIRNESS TO THE PREM-
IER, THOUGH, he did have a lot
on his mind on July 28, 1989.
When we asked about the Shames
road, he and his Advisory Council
on Native Affairs were on their
way to the Nass Valley to discuss
the “land question".

"There was a lot to talk about,"
Vander Zalm said after talking to
the Nisga’a Tribal Council. Among
them, a fisheries agreement, a
forestry agreement, and a tripartite
indusirial agreement.

"It’s going to be a very, very

difficult issue," he said. "And it

may well be that we can’t ever
resolve all, or even the majority of
the things that they want to see
resolved. But we can make a start
and we can help."

SPEAKING OF RESOLVING

- THINGS, Terrace alderman Ruth
‘Hallock sorted things out when she

focused attention on a tiny rift

- between two of her peers a year

ago this week. Hallock showed up
‘at the July 24 council mecting with
a cheque for'$21 in her hand. She
trled to give it to the mayor... he
‘wouldn't take it. She tried to give
‘it 10 the administrator... he

' ” wouldn't take it, She tried to give

it to alderman Dave Hull... he took
it; on behalf of the Terrace North-
man Rugby team. And the matter
of sundry aldermanic cxpensc

ilcms has never been mentioned - area '
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The sundry expense thing was
raised briefly at the July 10 coun-
cil mecting. It was no big deal, a
30-second exchange : between
Danny Sheridan and Hull, Hull
said he had been reimbursed $21
for hotel parking fees he had not
claimed. It was simply added to
his claim by administration, and
according to Hull it never should
have been; it wasn’t a valid
expense under city policy.

But he went further and sug-
gested thal a couple of other alder-
man who were quietly pocketing
small sums of money might be
doing something wrong. Hallock,
he said, also received money for

hotel parking and Sheridan was
reimbursed $15 for additional hotel
expenses when he changed a city-
booked room to one with an ocean
view. Sheridan, of course, was not
pleased with Hull’s insinuations
and said so. Hallock wasn’t there,
but she did effectively settle the
score. But why did she give the
cheque to one of Hull’s charities
and not Sheridan’s?

WITH THIS OUT OF THE
WAY, COUNCIL GOT DOWN
TO BUSINESS: The fire chief
wanted better regulations control-
ling propane filling stations in or
near residential areas: there were
already three stations in such areas
and another was being planned.
The Finance Commiltee was asked

to review the matter, Council.also -. ok thal paiaiee tele eeenane
opening of the Teraceview

decided that a stop sign was
needed on the north side of the
Sparks/Halliwell intersection,
approved an across-the-board five
percent hike in recreational fees
and charges, and extended for
another year E. Roldo and Son's
landfill maintenance contract, They
then listened to a proposal made

by Sheridan, who believed a game .

farm on Kitsumkalum Mountain
would make a great tourist attract-
ion.

AROUND TOWN, a lot of
people were preparing for River-
boat Days and a few were attend-
ing 1o last-minute details of the
Skeenaview Reunion. In the fore-
front of the news, however was the
recently completed Miss Terrace
Pageant. Lyne. . Lagace was
crowned Miss Terrace 1989,

EMERGENCY CREWS were
busy. Thornhill firefighters did
receive some help from.a couple
of quick-thinking teens who extin-
guished a propane fire in a mobile
home before the crew arrived, but
they did have some problems with
a house fire on Kalum Lake Drive.
The home was saved, but exten-
sively damaged. And there was
concern over a couple of suspi-

-cious bush fires close. to dirt bike -

trails. Would there be, more? Ter-
race firefighters’ got -off :much
easier; their only fire was a small
bush fire behind the R.E.M. Lee
Theatre. And Ihere was some good
news for all firefighters here: PCB

storage facilities in the province

had been checked out and while a
few in the region were rated below
par, slorage sites in the Terrace
arca were safe. .

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Terraceview Lodge acting administrator Kathleen Delgatty got a congratulatory handshake from
Minister of Health Peter Dueck a year ago last Friday during a tour of the newly-opened
Terraceview extended care wing.

Some residents thought the road
may be ready to slide into Howe
Creek.. We were told it was safe,
however, and would be there for
years. Also, there were plans afoot
to relocate a part of the road... but
not for a while. Lanfear Hill was
the least of Bryan Crampton’s
problems, though. This 11-year-old
won a prize of a free trip to
Disney World but his dog ate the
confirming letter a year ago this

week. Before he could do Ginger

in, though, his dad came to the
rescue; a few phone calls and the
prize was still his. Bad Ginger!
EXTENDED CARE was the talk
of the health care community. Two
days of activity surrounded the

extended care wing; there were
seminars, ceremonies and banquets
and more people than we could
possibly name. And there was
another exciting event in the world
of health care; a lottery grant
arrived and it would buy one Tele-
Guard phone unit for every three
units donated.

THERE WAS A LOT GOING
ON IN SPORTS a year ago this
week. Locally, kids where signing
up for a session of their favourite
winter sport; hockey school was
about to begin. Soccer school,
though, was scrapped. There
weren’t enough 11-to-17 year olds
willing to part with $125 just so

they could say they attended B.C.
Soccer’s second summer academy.

But there was a good deal of
touring going on to provide some
activity anyway. Zone seven ath-
letes were just returning from the
B.C, Summer Games with one
gold, six silver and nine bronze
medals. And Ed Ansems placed
37th in a field of 1,000 in the
10-kilometre road race at the
eighth World Veterans track and
field championships in Eugene,
Oregon.

A couple of our under-17 hockey
stars, Jared Ewart and . Davey
Jones, were in Osoyoos with the

‘top 46 hockey prospects in the

province, trying to carn a place on
Team Pacific. Some of our star
athletes, though, had already made
the big time teams, Once,
Caledonia’s Jackic Brown, was
touring southwestern states a ycar
ago this week with the boys’ B.C.
under-17 basketball reps, And
there was former Terrace resident

Gary Moen who had just been
informed he would soon be on his
way to the Ironman Triathlon in
Hawaii.

AND A PARTING NOTE: The
Terrace Review time capsule was.
a now part of our history a year
ago this week. It was buried under
a foot of grave} and four inches of
concrete the week before. We

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and fahrenhelt. We'll keep
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in the relaxing atmosphere
lounge.

FRESH ATLANTIC LOBSTER

A special Terrace Inn treat for Riverboat Days. Enjoy
a fresh 1%2-Ib. Atlantic lobster dinner complete with a
super buffet. Our lobsters will be flown in fresh from

weekend. Lobster dinners will be served Friday, Aug. 3,
Saturday, Aug. 4 and Sunday, Aug. 5 from 5:00 p.m. till
11:00 p.m. A complete lobster dinner, including a super

in Augie’s lounge. A Riverboat Days special at $29.95.

TIME AND TEMPERATURE

Keep your eyes on the new signs at the top of our
building. The Terrace Inn now boasts two information
signs (one facing north and one facing south) that
feature the time of day plus the temperature in celsius

NOON HOUR BUFFET

Join us, Monday through Friday, for our special
luncheon buffet featuring soup, a selection of salads
and a hot entree, for only $6.95. We also have a daily
dashaway sandwich and soup or salad special for only
$5.25. Enjoy lunch in our new Kermodei dining room or

Phone: 635-6630 Fax: 635-2788

don’t have the room kere to tell
you whet’s in that capsule; it took
nearly a page and a half to list it
all in last year’s issue. But every
once in a while, particularly when
it’s hot, we kind of wonder how
that bottle of Chancellor Red the
local liquor store kindly donated is
doing... Is there anyone out there
with a jackhammer?

Inn

Robert Q. Smith
General Manager

yourself to lobster this

Kermodei dining room and

you “in the know’. Watch

of Augie’s lounge.

4551 Greig Avenue,
Terrace, B.C.

TOLL FREE: 1-800-663-8156]